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Official US electricity plants, generators, output, fuel mix, and retirement schedules.

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About EIA Electricity Data

Use a free US Energy Information Administration key to research operating generators, plant generation, fuel mix, and planned retirements. Published energy records provide infrastructure context, not a utility-service guarantee, interconnection determination, or engineering opinion.

Published byU.S. Energy Information Administration API v2
UpdatesFreshness not declared
CredentialsAPI key
Used forelectricitygeneratorsplantsinfrastructuresiting

⚠ Coverage and frequency depend on the selected dataset.

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Setup

What EIA Electricity Data needs before it will answer.

Get started
  1. 01

    Request a free EIA key

    Register through the EIA Open Data service.

  2. 02

    Add the encrypted key

    Save the key in ParcelOps.

  3. 03

    Research electricity context

    Search plants, generation, fuel mix, or retirements.

Connect EIA Electricity Data to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and other MCP clients

Pick the tool your team uses for the exact setup steps.

  1. 1

    Open Claude settings

    Launch Claude, click the profile button (bottom left), and go to Settings.

  2. 2

    Access connectors

    Open the Connectors tab, scroll to the bottom, and click “Add custom connector”.

  3. 3

    Name your connector

    Enter any name you’d like for this connector.

  4. 4

    Get the connector URL

    Log in to ParcelOps, open the /mcp page, and copy the connector URL you want to use.

  5. 5

    Add the connector

    Paste the URL into the “Remote MCP server URL” box and click Add.

  6. 6

    Start using

    Your EIA Electricity Data connector is ready to use in Claude.